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Sharp, Violet
Violet Sharpe: From England to Englewood, and the Tragedy of Suspicion Violet Sharpe was an English domestic worker whose life and death became entangled in one of the most infamous criminal investigations of the twentieth century—the 1932 kidnapping of Charles and Anne… -
Seham, Phoebe (1932-2019)
Phoebe Seham was a women's rights activist. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1954. She became the founder and board president of the Englewood Women's Rights Infomation Center. She was also a member of The Advisory Commission on the Status of Women in Bergan County.…Tags Feminism -
Seeger, Pete
Pete Seeger (1919–2014) was one of America’s most influential folk musicians, songwriters, and social activists. Over a career spanning more than seven decades, he used music as a tool for social change, inspiring generations with his banjo, his clear voice, and his belief in… -
Sears, Nancy Lee (1836-1938)
Nancy Lee Sears was a formerly enslaved woman whose life spanned from the antebellum South into the twentieth century, bearing witness to slavery, emancipation, and the long, uneven struggle for freedom in the United States. She died in 1938 at the age of 102 while living in… -
Scruggs, Ronnie
Ronnie Scruggs was one of the key figures linking Englewood’s rich musical tradition to the rise of New Jack Swing. Born in 1947, Scruggs first gained recognition as a member of the soul-rock group the Deltas, which won the famed Apollo Amateur Night competition in 1970, just… -
Scotto, Anthony
Anthony “Tony” Scotto (1934–2021) was one of the most influential labor leaders on the New York waterfront during the mid-twentieth century. Rising through the ranks of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), he became president of Brooklyn-based Local 1814 and… -
Schwarzkopf, Norman Sr.
Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. (August 28, 1895 – November 25, 1958) was a U.S. Army officer and the first superintendent of the New Jersey State Police, widely recognized for shaping it into a disciplined, professional law-enforcement force during the tumultuous Prohibition era. A West… -
Schirra, Walter M. Jr.
Walter Marty Schirra Jr. was an American naval aviator, test pilot, and one of NASA’s original Mercury Seven astronauts. Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, and raised in Bergen County, he graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood in 1940 before entering the U.S. Naval… -
Scheinmann, Vivian (?-?)
Vivian Scheinmann was a journalist and women's rights activist. She opened a bookstore in Englewood with Pamela Sheldrick named Pandora Book Peddlers. It was opened around 1983 on 68 West Palisade Avenue. She also ran the New Directions for Women newspaper. -
Save Our Neighborhood Schools (SONS)
Save Our Neighborhood Schools (SONS) was an organization that opposed racial desegregation efforts in Englewood. According to the organization's leader, George Hatab, SONS believed that it was not the duty of the Englewood Board of Education to promote desegregation of schools…